Do All Baby Boomers Think The Same? | Spectrum

when when I think of music today and when I try to listen to music today I hear a lot of words I don't want to hear [Music] please clarify what's an okay boomer oh oh it's like a slide okay oh it just kills me that you know someone who's 19 or something I got calluses that are 19 you know there's this assumption that we don't know anything about anything and I'm the first to admit I'm ignorant about plenty in this world but I know a couple of things about some other things that I'm sure whoever said that doesn't know either wait till you get to our age and you start looking back on people who are that age you'll find out yeah I would be this respect that I somewhat agree because I'm new to the lingo but yeah I mean nobody wants to be disrespected yeah I guess it seems like as as soon as they say okay boomer or any that trans kind of voice it's like it's dismissive I'm not offended because the people that I use that work with or more or less in my generation I'm offended if they allude to okay old person okay double AARP card carrier or something like that cuz like I have to remind my son who's 45 like you're five years away from carrying the double AARP card you know okay blue I don't feel comfortable asking anyone for help I am NOT out the pasture yet I feel very comfortable asking younger people for help like especially on the day when the knees not working right yes I'm a developer so your programming language isn't suffer that so yet the younger guys I mean and and gals they just pick up stuff so quick I think we said you got to put the pride in the drawer and ask if that person is 18 or 80 ask oh I so agree with that I mean I have grandchildren who I love dearly but what they do is that they guilt you and what what happens is is that they feel like they're entitled to these things everything they know you want them to be happy and they know you want them to fit in with everybody so what you gotta do you're gonna go buy them that $1,200 cellphone after you just bought that last cell phone six months ago that cost you $1,000 that you still paying on that I think that entitlement comes from their upbringing I think parenting has become more luxe they've we've forgotten that we're supposed to raise kids to guide them along you're entitled to tell me how you feel in your titled to tell me what do you want to do and how can I help but just to hand money endlessly for our generation to do that shame on us I mean I agree with a lot of that I think some kids are you know they get $500 or cellphones and stuff like this and there's certain expectations but they're in for a world of trouble and a lot of stuff that were gonna have to deal with because we'll be dead what the climate is going to look like you know maybe it's not such a great thing to be that young this is the oldest cliche I bet Mozart was telling his father you know your music stunk but yeah but still I mean I mean this Lanka's yeah our music kicked ass when when I think of music today and when I try to listen to music today I hear a lot of words I don't want to hear there are a lot of lyrics about violence you know the words in today's music and even my kids agree is it's more direct and lewd at the same time I mean I hear they're for it and I think can you not think of a better word is it speaks to a lack of kriti creativity I'm in the technology field so when I grew up it's no cell phone you go to a you go to a payphone and you got to have the you know the right coin and then so the convenience is amazing cell phones weren't necessary when I was growing up because we got along just fine mama found you and she wanted to find you daddy did too you know we knew the times we had to be in the house we knew where we could go and where we couldn't go and wouldn't like I said what mama wanted to she found you there were long periods of time especially in the summer when nobody knew where we were my mother and my father had no idea where we were and there was no way to get in touch with us or then and that was just the way I liked it that's hard for me it's like you take a cell phone the school it's such a distraction for them I think there's a lot of challenges now with kids and even young adults with cell phones and I'm glad we didn't have them when I was coming up I do not agree that just because you disagree with this person you suddenly have a right to go beat on it and that's what I've seen because that community suffers more violence than any other community out there that needs to stop this is something that's gotten way better during our lifetimes they think the cops used to boss gay bars they used to arrest these guys they got people got beaten up they're still getting beaten up but we've come a long way are we there yet no but how could you not like this progress I mean we live in America right so live and let live you know no problem just yeah live any way you like camping just don't infringe on other people's rights kind of thing don't try to force right you're right over other people's rights you know adding to that is you know in particularly the women and men's bathroom I you know I think about my kids and this gender-neutral bathrooms just bothering me I'm glad my kids are all grown up but it's not safe from my growing up you you didn't go outside the community for help I mean you sucked it up and you did it you know you didn't like it so what I somewhat agree with it now because I'm seeing all of this homelessness I'm seeing all of the people out on the street with all of the problems and I'm thinking to myself yeah there has to be something better you know then suck it up and figure it out I grew up in what is now South LA there was domestic violence there was a lot going on then but you did you kind of sucked it up and in sucking it up you kind of passed it on to your general the next generation because no one ever dealt with it and a lot of like for example domestic violence it was like the norm I think our generation with the culture it's like we don't want people to think that there's something wrong with us so we're not going to go and try to get it fixed I thought this is just an age thing I mean people of a certain amount of experience in age have always run the world kids don't know enough about the world super old people don't have the energy to run the world so this is who runs the world at no time in the history of our country have we had the quantity of people under 35 years of age who are CEOs millionaires and billionaires people who came from literally no silver spoon and then now a couple years later they could buy fifty billion dollar homes at multiple locations and pay cash to me I think that's awesome Mike you're just mad because you can't sell mortgages the people quote-unquote in power which is the government mostly baby boomers you know look at the Democratic field look at the whose president right now and they're all pretty old but like like Mike said the guys with the money it's the younger guys and it's always the money that drives politics too you know this is LeFort so yeah so there is the behind the scene power that you know some people may know the boomers are getting tired I believe that we've made the world a better place and I look toward civil rights as being my mark I remember not being able to go to certain cafes I I remember the bus situations so we fought very very hard for civil rights so all the rights that people are getting nowadays they're getting those rights because we fought for them we March we boycotted we thought we went to jail we had our churches bombed we did all of this so when someone asked us well what do you think about LGBTQ rights we can say yeah I think they're entitled to their rights you know that was part of the civil rights movement where we didn't only fight for rights for black people African Americans we fought for rights for everyone so I think that yeah well we've left our mark when we leave the earth I think one thing that hopefully were gonna be remembered for Lady Thatcher Pope John Paul and Ronald Reagan freed over a hundred million people from communism I agree with most of that not what Mike said I grid with none of that we made some great strides with made some great strides with civil rights and absolutely I don't disagree with any of that but at the same time this generation has turned a blind eye to some serious environmental issues we've killed huge swathes of the ocean the polar caps are melting there used to be a middle class when we were young there was a middle class in the 60s it's moving its way out to the edges now there's a lot of poor people and there's a lot of really rich people and our generation has to bear some responsibility for some of that stuff [Applause] my wife goes for her censorship interview Friday as from [Laughter] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 13min 41sec (821 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2020

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[u/Marmatus]

I saw this yesterday. I thought it was odd how the examples they gave for Boomers making the world a better place were things that had nothing to do with Boomers. Like the one lady brought up the civil rights movement, which was led almost exclusively by the Silent Generation and G.I. Generation, and the guy specifically mentioned Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan, all three of whom were G.I Gen and probably old enough to be his grandparents.